Krasnyi Luch
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Krasnyi Luch (Ukrainian: Красний Луч) is a city in the Luhansk Oblast (province) of south-eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast.
The current estimated population is around 115,000 (as of 1993).
[edit] History
The town was founded as Krindachyovka at the beginning of the 20th century, and renamed as Krasnyi Luch in 1929. The city became one of the most important coal mining centres of the Donets Basin.
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